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AGC: Torrid Construction Job Growth Leads Employment Gains

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CEG - “The construction industry again outpaced the overall economy in adding jobs in November,” said Ken Simonson, chief economist of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), a national construction trade association. “Today’s report from the Labor Department showed...

AGC Declares Highway Trust Fund on Verge of Bankruptcy

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CEG - The Associated General Contractors of America’s (AGC) CEO Stephen E. Sandherr declared the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) on the verge of bankruptcy, and called for short-term solutions such as indexing the gas tax to inflation to guard against future erosion of the fund’s purchasing power ...

AGC’s Economist Expresses Concern Over Rising Costs

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CEG - Inflation at the consumer level remained moderate [in October], but many construction inputs are going through the proverbial roof,” warned Ken Simonson, chief economist of The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), the nation’s leading construction trade association. ...

AGC Urges Senate to Protect Contractor First Responders

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CEG - Four members of The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), some of whom were among the first contractors to respond to help stop the water from flooding New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, urged Congress to pass legislation that would limit the risk of liability that contracto...

AGC Continues Role as Strong Voice for Contractors, Industry

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Pete Sigmund - When Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) speaks, government and industry listen.AGC has been a voice of construction for 87 years.Headquartered in Arlington, VA, outside Washington, D.C., and with chapters from the Atlantic to the Pacific, AGC advocates contractor positi...

AGC Eyes Thwarting Federal Construction Spending Cuts

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CEG - The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has expressed concern about the proposed across-the-board discretionary spending cut being considered in Congress that would include reductions in the federal investment in infrastructure programs.In a letter to members of the U.S. House ...

AGC Economist Analyzes Dramatic Rise of Construction Costs

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CEG - Ken Simonson, chief economist of The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has issued an analysis of the cost of construction from 2001 to 2005, which examines reasons for the dramatic rise in construction costs in the past two years as compared to the general rate of inflation.S...

AGC of Texas Kicks Off 22nd Annual Show in Austin

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CEG - The 22nd Annual AGC of Texas Highway, Heavy, Utilities and Industrial Branch Trade and Equipment Show kicked off on Oct. 5 at the Austin Convention Center with the opening luncheon keynote address by Gov. Rick Perry, who lauded the Texas transportation system as being the best in the nation. ...

AGC Establishes Katrina Construction Workers Fund

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CEG - The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has established the Hurricane Katrina Construction Workers Fund, through the AGC Education and Research Foundation, to provide financial assistance to the construction workers in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama who suffered financially from t...

New York AGC Holds Annual Charitable Golf Tournament

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Profile - If there were a theme to this year’s Anthony S. Santaro AGC Scholarship Classic it would have been “I’m Hot, Hot, Hot.” Temperatures in the mid-90s with very high humidity made finishing this year’s tournament (which took more than five hours) more a test of endurance rather than skill. ...